‘No international incidents’: the 10th Cannes film festival (opens in new tab)

4 May 1957: Bernard Levin plays spot the celebrity in Cannes at the opening performance of Around the World in 80 Days“Zut,” said a starlet – an English starlet – as I trod on her dress, and I stifled my surprise with the reflection that this was, after all, the first night of the 10th Cannes film festival.The film chosen for the opening performance was Mr Mike Todd’s Around the World in 80 Days – of which more in a moment – and the world of the cinema, not to mention of the Côte d’Azur, had ...